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This article describes common problems encountered during capsule filling and provides troubleshooting tips for solving them.

This article discusses important factors to consider when selecting a capsule filler for research and development (R&D) or small-scale production.

This article discusses the primary factors that influence capsule filler performance and provides tips for optimizing your encapsulation process.

While tablets and capsules are both safe and viable dosage forms, capsules compare favorably to tablets in a number of ways, including: cost savings and ease of manufacturing, control of highly potent APIs, ease of swallowing, attractiveness, and ease of use in combination products.

This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of different methods for determining the endpoint in a high-shear mixer granulation process and highlights the high-precision direct torque measurement technique.

In this article, industry leaders discuss the important challenges their companies faced in 2020 and what to expect in the dietary supplement industry in 2021.

This article describes a case study evaluating the potential for using NIR spectroscopy to identify blend variations in a tableting process and the impact of sensor location on data acquisition.

This edition of Eye on Excipients discusses how multivariate analysis can be used to de-risk the use of excipients. The article describes a study that uses principal component analysis (PCA) to evaluate the use of anhydrous lactose manufactured from a second production line. The study compares batches representing the historical variation for both production lines. The resulting data set can be useful for pharmaceutical companies as part of their control strategy when qualifying anhydrous lactose from the second production line.